Competition opens: Monday 4 November 2024
Competition closes: Wednesday 11 December 2024
Applicants notified: 7th February 2025
Project start date & duration: 1st May 2025. Projects can last between 6 and 18 months
Scope:
The aim of this competition is to support outstanding innovation projects led by businesses. Your business must use the funding to grow your innovation activities in the immersive and creative industries cluster centred on Coventry and Warwickshire in the West Midlands, both during and after the project.
The projects will contribute to the ambitions of the cluster to develop, fuse and transfer existing research excellence, industrial innovation capability and sectoral strengths. Building market-orientated opportunities in immersive and creative industries. This competition is split into two strands:
Launchpad: immersive and creative, Coventry and Warwickshire, Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D), Round 2. Here your project’s total grant funding request must be between £150,000 and £1 million. Up to 70% grant support depending on the size of your business and project maturity
Launchpad: immersive and creative, Coventry and Warwickshire, Minimal Financial Assistance (MFA), Round 2. Here your project’s grant funding request must be between £25,000 and £100,000 and last between 6-12 months. Your total project costs will be up to 100% funded up to the maximum grant of £100,000.
Your project can focus on developing and applying technologies including one or more of the following:
- digital media
- mixed media
- augmented reality
- virtual reality
- virtual production
- game engine and 3D environments
- simulations and data visualisations
- performance and motion capture
- gesture and facial recognition
Your project can be aimed at application in one or more of the following market sectors and industries:
- creative industries
- video game development
- screen sector
- healthcare
- education
- future mobility
- manufacturing
- retail
- tourism, leisure and sport
How PNO can support you
The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.
For further information or to discuss a project idea please contact PNO Consultants
0161 488 3488 | info.uk@pnoconsultants.com
